Austin is addressing climate challenges through initiatives focused on community preparedness, resilient infrastructure, and sustainable solutions. By working together with partners and using data-driven strategies, we're adapting to changing conditions and building a stronger, more resilient future for all. Explore our efforts below.
The Resilient Austin Playbook
The Resilient Austin Playbook is a strategic roadmap to help the community prepare for, respond to, and recover from the growing challenges of a rapidly changing city. As Austin faces affordability pressures, infrastructure strain, and increasing climate risks — including extreme heat, flooding, drought, wildfires, and winter storms — the Playbook aligns City departments and partners around coordinated, proactive solutions.
- Read the Resilient Austin Playbook (PDF, 5.9 MB)
The Resilient Austin Playbook builds on prior City resilience efforts, including the community-led One Austin Framework, to align City departments and partners around shared goals.
- Read about One Austin - Our Resilience Framework for Action (PDF, 1,265 KB)
- Lea sobre el plan Un solo Austin - Nuestro Marco de Acción Para la Resiliencia (PDF, 1,201 KB)
UT-City Climate CoLab
Austin faces increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather. To better prepare for the future, the City of Austin partnered with the University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences to create the world’s first city-specific climate collaborative. The UT-City Climate CoLab develops Austin-focused climate data, tools, and assessments. Explore recent resources created by the CoLab:
- Climate Projections for Austin
- 2024 Summer Outlook (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- 2025 Winter Outlook
- 2025 Summer Outlook
Climate Resilience for City Operations
The Climate Resilience Action Plan for City Assets and Operations (PDF, 3.3 MB) guides how Austin’s City departments manage operations, assets, and long-term planning in response to climate change. It focuses on essential services and physical assets like energy, water, telecom infrastructure, roads, and community facilities, providing strategies for resilience and sustainability.
Heat Resilience & Mapping
Austin’s first Heat Resilience Playbook (PDF 5.5 MB) emphasizes strategic actions the City and partners are taking to support community preparedness, prioritize cooling investments in high-heat neighborhoods, and ensure our infrastructure is resilient.
The City hopes to raise residents' awareness of heat risks, develop a collaborative framework within the City and community to build heat resilience, and establish a coordinated implementation of heat resilience efforts in Austin.
Explore more heat-related resources: